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Meng Qi has multiple identities. He's not only a electronic musician, but also a synth designer and a teacher.

On music. He started learning electronic music in 1999, released two albums in 2005 and 06 : "Landscape In Love" and "Landscape On Live" (ChinaVibe Recordings), and had been active in electronic music Live P.A. performances in the following years. In 2018 he released 2 albums : "Sidrolz" (Obsolete Staircases Recordings), an album played with his DIY instrument of the same name, exploring raw electronic expressions. and "Span" (Cloudchamber Recordings), a collection of snapshots in time, moods manifested into physical reality.

On synth designing, Meng Qi released "Voltage Memory" in 2015, the first eurorack module from China. Followed by some other module designs (e.g."DPLPG"). He had also transformed some open-source Ciat-Lonbarde circuits into circuit boards. Due to his constant and strong interests in musical interfaces, he built a lot of experimental musical instrument for researching.

On teaching, he had taught in Beijing Contemporary Music Academy, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts and Central Academy of Fine Arts, for Sound Synthesis, Programming and Instrument DIY. He also had workshops and lectures in Munich Knobs & Wires, Shenzhen Design Society, Macao City Fringe Festival, Zhihu Club, TEDxDALIAN, Beijing Maker Space, XinCheJian, Maker Carnivals, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Zajia lab and so on. In 2002 he wrote the first Fruityloops tutorial in Chinese, and 2005-08 with 18 sound synthesis tutorials, and in 2015 he worked with Zihua to record a modular synthesis video lecture.

On 2014 he joined Liquid Palace, which is active in performances. He used to be a member of ChiRen band during 2008-14.

Meng Qi is a pioneer of Chinese contemporary digital art, and is fame for his music and distinctive devices and instruments, which are being used by electronic music artists all over the world.